The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 20 August 2012 197 4 204-204 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2012 www.mja.com.au Perspective energy, and reduce the use of health services.1,2 While for reasons that will be discussed below, there is limite evidence of the effects of GH replacement on mortalit extrapolation from the improvement in lipid profile al would suggest that cardiovascul...

Our goal was to assess the economic impact of some environmentally friendly technologies on production costs and cost-effectiveness a dairy cattle confinement system, estimating environmental their representativeness in both effective total operating costs, as well cost. We assessed cost center milk identified components that most affect final break-even point (kg year-1) well. The data were co...

Data from a national survey representative of U.S. dairy operations were used to assess adoption and the production and financial impacts of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST). Adoption rates of rbST varied significantly across the nation, but were higher among larger diary operations in all regions. However, the scale bias of rbST adoption was substantially diminished when the influence of...

The recombinant hormone obtained by non-covalent interaction of the NH2-terminal 134 amino acid fragment with the COOH-terminal 51 amino acid fragment of the reduced-carbamidomethylated human somatotropin molecule is found to exhibit nearly full biological activity of the native hormone, as evidenced by the stimulation of hepatic ornithine decarboxylase (L-ornithine carboxy-lyase, EC 4.1.1.17) ...

An ex ante adoption model of bovine somatotropin (BST) is estimated with survey data of California milk producers. Theoretical justification is developed for incorporation of socioeconomic explanatory variables in a technology-adoption model. The advantages of a multinomial over a binomial ex ante model also are presented. The multinomial logit model is used to predict BST adoption, to test hyp...